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+import requests
+import re
+import json
+
+from lazy import lazy
+from . import LMS_BASE_URL
+
+
+class ConfigModelFixureError(Exception):
+    """
+    Error occurred while configuring the stub XQueue.
+    """
+    pass
+
+
+class ConfigModelFixture(object):
+    """
+    Configure a ConfigurationModel by using it's JSON api.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, api_base, configuration):
+        """
+        Configure a ConfigurationModel exposed at `api_base` to have the configuration `configuration`.
+        """
+        self._api_base = api_base
+        self._configuration = configuration
+
+    def install(self):
+        """
+        Configure the stub via HTTP.
+        """
+        url = LMS_BASE_URL + self._api_base
+
+        response = self.session.post(
+            url,
+            data=json.dumps(self._configuration),
+            headers=self.headers,
+        )
+
+        if not response.ok:
+            raise ConfigModelFixureError(
+                "Could not configure url '{}'.  response: {} - {}".format(
+                    self._api_base,
+                    response,
+                    response.content,
+                )
+            )
+
+    @lazy
+    def session_cookies(self):
+        """
+        Log in as a staff user, then return the cookies for the session (as a dict)
+        Raises a `ConfigModelFixureError` if the login fails.
+        """
+        return {key: val for key, val in self.session.cookies.items()}
+
+    @lazy
+    def headers(self):
+        """
+        Default HTTP headers dict.
+        """
+        return {
+            'Content-type': 'application/json',
+            'Accept': 'application/json',
+            'X-CSRFToken': self.session_cookies.get('csrftoken', '')
+        }
+
+    @lazy
+    def session(self):
+        """
+        Log in as a staff user, then return a `requests` `session` object for the logged in user.
+        Raises a `StudioApiLoginError` if the login fails.
+        """
+        # Use auto-auth to retrieve the session for a logged in user
+        session = requests.Session()
+        response = session.get(LMS_BASE_URL + "/auto_auth?superuser=true")
+
+        # Return the session from the request
+        if response.ok:
+            # auto_auth returns information about the newly created user
+            # capture this so it can be used by by the testcases.
+            user_pattern = re.compile('Logged in user {0} \({1}\) with password {2} and user_id {3}'.format(
+                '(?P<username>\S+)', '(?P<email>[^\)]+)', '(?P<password>\S+)', '(?P<user_id>\d+)'))
+            user_matches = re.match(user_pattern, response.text)
+            if user_matches:
+                self.user = user_matches.groupdict()
+
+            return session
+
+        else:
+            msg = "Could not log in to use ConfigModel restful API.  Status code: {0}".format(response.status_code)
+            raise ConfigModelFixureError(msg)